Aaron and I are staring through Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pennsylvania masterwork. The famous house’s cantilevers stack themselves over Bear Run, the stream that runs through the house and climaxes…
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World and Whistle
by Guest Contributor September 7, 2018David Carlin and I, after walking along a beach in Melbourne, decrying the eroding beach, decided we would write essays in parallel, one for each letter in the alphabet. Essays…
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Literacy Narrative: Losing the Kingdom
by Thomas Dai September 28, 2017Place names often sound to me like incantations. If the whole world can be conjured by shapes drawn and labeled on a map, then this world is surely the result…
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The New Comics: David Mahler
by Guest Contributor July 26, 2017DAVID MAHLER is a comic artist and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, The Suburban Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Palooka Mag and more.…
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Literacy Narrative: On Trees and Tearing
by Guest Contributor December 30, 2016I don’t remember their canopies or the shape of their leaves, only their trunks. They were whorled and bulbous—disfigured like the trees painted into a fairytale’s haunted forest. But they…
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Elsewhere, Decontamination
by Joe Milazzo October 7, 2014Last week will go down as the week I started sending myself text messages. Not notes in an emergency, just language at risk of becoming unmoored because its urgency could…
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20 Literary Maps
by Entropy June 27, 2014Who doesn’t love a good map? Some maps, which already contain entire narratives of their own, have stuck with us for their imagined potential and concretization of some of our…